Fuck Off Darkies

Umm, we can't say that anymore in Oz, can we? Not when 95K darkies pay around US 2.85Bn (my estimate) to the economy every year. How much change the pocket book will ring in is still to be seen, but change will come.

I forecast that India and Indians will have more of an impact than many another large developing country on the rest of the world as our economy matures, because our money is spent as we will it, and not as our government may.

So, Indian managers (Bharti excepted) will buy companies is the smaller developed countries of Europe where they are in a close time zone and where they are culturally comfortable, unlike the Chinese who will buy into far flung dictatorships. And, as savers of jobs, will gain disproportionately in political clout at the local level, which in a democracy is the right level.

Except for England. The Brits, where the government believes that politicians are paid to cozy up to the square mile, and to pay no heed to blue collar workers, are playing hardball at Jaguar.

The correct thing for the Tata's to do would be take out all the designers and engineers (the value of the company) and employ them at Tata Motors and sink the blue collar assemblers. Sometimes, the colonial master must be kicked in the balls; that is best done by the electorate. Nothing says that the Tata's cannot help the electorate to make a fine choice.

Where cricket led the way, so shall other fields follow.